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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-01
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Nottingham, England, Hosiery Company's
factories at Loughboro, were burned Yesterday.
Loss. $500, 000.
johnson Nelson, railroad contractor. was
killed at Hurley, Mich, on Sunday, by the ex-
plosion of a dynamite cartridge which he was
thawing out
bridge over Evergreen creek, the Pitts
burg d Northern Narrow-guage railway. gave
way yesterday. precipitating an engine into the
creek. fatally injuring engineer Marshall and
slightly bruising fireman Harry Crider Traffic
on the road will be suspended for nearly week.
pending the rebuilding of the bridge.
Mr.. Gerald Maxwell, a member of the Wilson
Barrett Dramatic Company, has been placed in
the Cincinnati sanitarium. upon the certificate
of Cincinnati physician that he is insane. His
cipher for telegraphic messages which re has IN
vented He is said to be we'll educated, and to
have distinguished connections in England.
In Jones county, Georgia. Saturday morning
two boys. aged ten and eight years. while in the
woods gathering brush, were set upon by Sam
Blvend, aged seventeen. and murdered with an
axe. Charles Rivers. the father of the boys.
headed searching party and found the bodies
hidden in gulley, at o'clock Sunday morning
Bivend is in Jail, and has confessed He says
he had fight with the boys
A horrible murder was committed at Perkins
small station about fifteen miles north of
Escanaba, on the Chicago & Northwestern road
on Saturday night, the victim being man
head split open, the deed having been commit
ted with axe Mrs Peterson claims that she
awoke and found a boarder, named johnson, at
tempting to stab her with knife. Her stories
are contradictory She has been arrested, and
officers after johnson.
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MRS. EMMoNs.
What Her Husband Says About Her-She
VIII Go to England


What Her Husband Says About Her-She
VIII Go to England.
Washington Critic.
Il shall not make any further efforts to restrain
my wife, said Professor Emmons beyond
warning merchants against trusting her on nv
account All that could do has been DONE and
now let those who have upheld the poor child
against my wishes take charge of her. OF
course, she will not want for anything. as the
income from her telephone stock will be ample
for her wants The house that she has rented
in London is in very pleasant quarter, near
Marylebone, and the residences in the vicinity
are very suggestive of Washington. being sur
rounded by little parks. STILL it would not sur
prise if my wife refused to be contented even
amid such comfortable surroundings but imme-
diately after going to England she should return
to the United States"
''Mr. Emmons has done all that he could IN
this matter said Mr.. Linden Kent, land he will
attempt further legal proceeding. No one
caatjusty accuse my client OF harshness in this
case, for he has shown wonderful forbearance
under the circumstances. Of course. we are
estopped from in any way caring for Mrs EN-
mons, and she must look to her present friends
for solace
s'In talking with the jury" added Mr. Kent.
the reporter was about to withdraw, Il want
to repeat in justice TO Professor Emmons what
they have said to me. To use their own words.
they say that they CONSIDER the conduct of
Professor Emmons towards his wife one of
remarkable patience and forbearance,' and that
they believe that he has acted throughout this
entire matter as he thought in the best interests
of his wife.
Mrs. Emmons now has in her own right $27,
600 in Bell Telephone stock, and real estate to
elrv and other personal effects of value make her
estate worth in round figures, $40, 600 All of
this had been given her by Professor Emmous
since their marriage"
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State Inspectors.

DaWrenCeDuTg freSS
About forty counties in Indiana have had de-
falcations in the last twenty years, and in prob
ably every county IN the State officers have
charged illegal fees, or illegally sacrificed the in
terests of the people in some way to promote the
interests of officers or parties This county
has had several officers who have pocketed fees
which belonged to the county. It is not the
business of the newspaper organ of the ruling
party to say that which may injure its party:
and what opposition papers may say is attributed
to party spirit, so that the majority hears moth
ing wrong in its own paper and believes nothing
in others. This would be just the same if the
politics and conditions were reversed. and it
shows the Importance of having an independent
and competent authority to examine and know
if all things are right A really honest officer
would be impossible for some officer clique of
his own party to throw a suspicion over him.
The other day the treasure of Knox county
turned up $4,000 defaulter. Does anyb body
suppose this would have occurred If he had
known that at any hour q competent inspector
might drop down on him, and ''go through" his
accounts and his cash2 Ripley county has been
paying taxes for years to make up stealnes by
officers, and IS now paying for Official iumbling
due to official ignorance and politics" It is
fiat" for the lawyers and inside politicians,
but hard on the tax payers.
The Legislature ought to create the office of
inspector of county affairs. The number to be
appointed should be matter of consideration,
and the appointing power. also. Their duties
should be to inspect the books of county Offices;
to see whether they are kept according to law or
intellgently; whether the money is on hand
or accounted for safely; whether the fees
collected are lawful, the taxes levied and col
lected are lawful; whether all the manifold and
varied duties of the officers of the people are
faithfully and lawfully executed Why2 Not
one man out of thousand in county knows
anything about the methods of county business
or, il invited, could inspect the work of any
county officer intelgently, and it an officer hn.
gone wrong, his successor, who may come upoI
| the wrong, is always bound by political consid
erations to conceal it If the inspecting officers
were appointed equally from the two politica
parties. and, far practicable. the Democrats
sent to Republican and Republicans to Demo
cratic counties, the result would be salutary
The subject should have the careful attention o.
| thoughtful legislators
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What Is a Contested Election?

20 the EDITOR OF the indianapolis journal
great effort is being made to avoid that Sec
ton of the Constitution which provides that
contested elections for Governor and Lieutenant
governor shall be determined by the General AS
sembly. 1t is claimed that because it is con-
coded that the people elected Robertson by 5000
majority therefore his election is not contested
The fallacy is apparent To make an election
there must be an Office, candidate and a vote
If either of these requisites lacking there is
no election. Whether there be a vacancy in the
Office. present or expected is just as much sub
ject for the adjudication of those tribunals that
have the right to hear and determine
election contests whether the candidate is
eligible or ineligible or whether his vote is
honest fraudulent. Our courts have never
hestated to consider either of these questions in
a contested election case, and
dreamed of arguing that the question of whether
there vacancy in the term of Office did
not make a contested election" until within the
last sixty DAYS. If the only question in
tested election is that which concerns the actual
ballot and its count. this would exclude all Ques
| tions of eligibility of candidates. Did any one
| ever go SO far to say that the question of ell
| gbity could not be considered in a contested
election? Yet the reasoning is precisely the same
as that urged to support this new tangled doc
| trine-that a vacancy is question not
| included in election contests. Sup
| pose an alien elected by heavy majority
| to the Senate. Could contest of the election
be avoided upon the plea that mo one questions
| the majority of the vote"-therefore, this is not
| a contested election? The term, contested
| election" has such restricted meaning. 1t
clearly includes all the preliminaries and neces-
| sary elements required to clothe person with
the title to an Office, and among these neces-
sary elements is not only the eligibility of the
| candidate, but the question whether there is a
vacancy present or prospective in the Office to
| which he is elected. Any other construction of
| the phrase contested election" is contrary to
| common sense and the unbroken usage of our
| courts. d. 2. BALDWIN.
+ LoGANsPoRT, Jan. %, 1887.
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OTHER LABOR NEWS.
A Strike at Pensacola eliminates in Rio
and a Call for Troops.

A Strike at Pensacola eliminates in Blot
and Call for Troops
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 31.-The Times Demo
Gratis Pensacola, Fla, special says ''rhe strike
inaugurated some time ago against Lear
& Gonzalese. contracting stevedores, to-
day assumed q new force The strikers were
out this morning about 1000 strong.
At o'clock, when workmen were in their boats
preparing to embark for their labors. represent
atives of the organizations read to them resolu-
tions adopted by the latter. Words ensued
which eliminated in a row, in which Lear was
knocked senseless. John Ward, one of Lear's
mon, was also knocked down. beaten and bruised.
The remainder of the men jumped from their
boats and swan to places of safety amid o
shower of stones and other missiles. Upon the
landing of several of Lear's crew they were fol-
lowed and hooted at through the city by mob.
The city commissioner and sheriff of the county
have summoned the military of the county and
about 500 citizens to appear tomorrow morning
and assist in keeping the peace"
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL TUESDAY. FEBRUAR4 l. 1857

liabilities from accidents. great many fac
tory owners are in favor of this combination.
and are dropping into it in order that the lossec
from accidents may be equalized.
Not for years have the makers Of boilers in
the New England and Middle States been as
busy they are at this time Nearly all manu-
facturers are obliged to increase their steam
power capacity in order to compete with neigh
bors.
The city Of New York pays over 800, 900 per
annum for rents The labor men suggest that
the city build its own Offices by the expenditure
of $40. 900, 600 for public works. 1t is said that
So 900, 900 is needed for new school-houses and
$2,000O00 for streets New York pays more
money for police than for education, more money
for judges than for public health and more for
charities and correction than for STRENGTHENING.
Possibly New York is not alone in this dis
tinction.
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made similar demands, and the strikers now
make the point that these demands were neither
refused nor granted. Everything went on
smoothly; the men worked all the fall without
expressing dissatisfaction. and at points where
no increase had been granted they waited
patiently for it, and say that they confidently
expected it. because it has been an invariable
rule in their business that whenever any COM
pany granted an increase of trade all the other
companies were to follow the example
On Monday before Jan l notices were posted
at Elizabethport and Bergen Point that on and
after New Year the companies would resume the
old rate of wages. This action forms another
important point in the strike for the men say
that in posting these notices it was the COM
panies that struck, and not themselves. They
say they consider this action an evidence of bad
faith on the part of the companies; the conse-
quence was that, on the first work day of the
new year, no men appeared for work at the
places where the notices were posted, and two
o. three days later all the other coa-handlers at
ali the other coal places were laid off except the
soft-coal Tlen at South Amboy, who handle coal
by the ton at rates mutually satisfactory to them
and the companies. Because they considered
themselves deceived, they say they broke their
usual custom of treating with their own COM
panies directly and turned the matter over to
their district assem- bies, which are Numbers 103.
122 and 48, for all these laborers are knights of
Labor. These district assemblies agreed to sur
render the negotiations to the arbitra-
ton committee of No. 49, This COM
mittee wrote statement of the sit
uation to the company, received no reply
from anybody, and there the matter stands. The
heads of the great coal companies, such as Mr..
Potts and Mr.. Tillnghast of the opinion that
the men overestimate their strength and can be
brought to terms, if it comes to q trial of
strength. The majority of the others appear to
take a less hopeful view OF the situation from
the stand-p point The companies are already
trying to locate the blame for the present situa
ton. Mr. Potts has been informed, and appears
to believe, that when the increase that was
granted to the men last fall was made the men
were notified that the companies only granted
the advance under protest and would return to
the old rates as possible. Mr. Tilling-
hast, of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre company, is
understood to take this view Of it. Here comes
the one point upon which the men and the COM
panies disagree. The men all declare that no
such notification was given them at the time of
the increase, and say that they would have
struck then if such had been their understand
ing. They say that the notification to return to
old rates came like a thunderbolt upon them;
that it was the first instance that appeared to
be double-dealing they had met with in their re-
lations to their employers, and that if they had
been medtating strike last fall was the time
they would have chosen for 1t rather than this
winter, for then it would have embarrassed the
COuDanleS most
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Temperance Legislation.

temperance AoS1Sl0tf0n.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal.
see by your paper that Representative Ack-
man, of Hancock county, has offered an amend
ment to one Of the sections of our present tenn
perance law recognize it as feature of the
once celebrated Baxter law of this State. It was
found to be very impracticable part Of that
law, great personal annoyance to communities,
easily complied with by false signatures. and
wholly unsuitable for the working Of temper
ance law deem it unw:se and only loss OF
time and money to undertake to patch up or
mend our present rickety and inefficient law It
is as full of holes and technicaities as the liquor
seller is of arts and craftiness.
II the Legislature is DESTROYS Of enacting
good and practicable temperance law. one that
VIII stay or mitigate the curse OF liquor selling.
and afford some relief to thousands of families
now grooming under that curse, why not at once
bring forward and adopt the Illinois local-option
and high-license law! or that of Missouri or
OhioY The illinois law has been tried, and
works we'll 1t has added largely to the reve-
nues of the places where license voted, and
reduced crime, panperism and expenses where
no license was voted. The law should be plain.
simple and devoid of all ambiguity or loop
holes-not at all like the present one, which
makes it as hard to prove violation of il to
prove that the moon is inhabited by liquor
sellers.
The local-option clause to be submitted to the
legal voters at each regular election for town
and county officers. the tickets to be headed
with the words: ''Lcense"-"No license" If
the voter is in favor of license, he is to add to
the word license Yes and if opposed, mo"
And for cities, let the question be submitted at
each regular election for Mayor and Common
Council. Let the license fee be made nigh, the
seller to give bond and prove to the county
board that he has character for sobriety him
self. owns some property, and has been resident
of the town or city at least one year The law
In Missouri is doing good service, and last year
increased the revenue from that source from
$547, 900 to ST. ,S42, 900.
There should be one clause against any phase
of gambling, and proof of its violation subject
the seller to fine of not less than $50, and for
fixture of his license. S. II. POTTER
TERRE HAUTE Jan. 81.
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The Blackwood Murder Case.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
Please allow me to say, as of the counsel
for the prosecution in the Blackwood murder
case recently tried at Brazil, that the pretended
review of the case given by your correspondent
from Brazil is colossal aggregation of misstate-
ments of fact. He misrepresented the case and
the conduct thereof from its commencement to
its termination, and is now trying to excuse his
own mendacity by expressing surprise at the
verdict of the jury, and offers as an excuse for
this verdict that the defense was strong and the
prosecution notably weak" queer verdict
indeed. if his statement were true in fact
While in way undertaking the labors of my
friends, Messrs. Holiday & Byrd in behalf OF
the defense. do resent the statement in refer
ence to the weakness of the prosecution rs ma.
licious, slanderous false and untrue.
p O. CoLLIvEa, Prosecuting Attorney.
GREENCASTLE, JAN 81
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Industrial Notes.

Philadelphia Record.
A German house has started an agent out on a
bicycle to sell goods throughout Europe
The Richmond Typographical Union has de-
cided against the use of stereotype plates.
New York importer of steel has bought
200. 600 tons of European steel this season.
The New York printers will make vigorous
effort to have State printing-ofice established.
The Adiutant- general of Texas has officially
urged the Legislature to raise State army for
the suppression of the Knights of Labor
The locomotive works throughout the country
have been booking large orders for engines to
be furnished as soon as they can be built
A forgeman in Connecticut tool works has
just discovered how to harden and temper steel,
and has received an offer of 81, 900 per year.
There are now five concerns making pins in
Connecticut Foreign manufacturers hire good
makers for 81 per day, while wages here run
from ST. to Sd.
1t turns out that Perry & Co. will continue
their big stove establishment at Albany, and
will build another one in the South to supply
their Sou thern trade.
A Belgian textile manufacturer has devised q
process for tanning textile fabrics which renders
them waterproof and proof against decay with
out increasing their weight
The Knights Of Maine have adopted bylaw
which provides that strikes and lock-outs shall
be referred to a commissioner, vino shall have
JurlSd1ctlon Wltnln prescribed limits.
Locomotive works are to be built at Admission,
Ala. A syndicate representing 500. 600, 900 cap
ital has begun to invest money in that locality,
and is building furnaces mills and factories.
Nine Boucicault, of Paris has given her en-
ployes pension fund of over 81, 900, OO0 for the
benefit of those who have been in her service
over twenty years; that is, provided the men are
fifty and the women forty-tive years old.
The boot and shoe man ufactursrs say that the
labor agitations have had paralyzing effect on
the boot and shoe traffic. They say, however
that superfuous stocks have been gradually
worked off so that when activity ia restored the
traffic will be lively. Raw materials are do
clinne and the cost of production, it is thought
| may be reduced.
Employers in all directions are more than usu
| ally anxious to have rates of wages fixed before
| the spring trade opens. In many places they
| are already voluntarily advancing wages. II
| other cases they have indirectly requested tina
| employees formulate demands in order that they
| may be acted upon. Some of the labor organi
cations have decided to strike for an advance il
| their requests be not granted.
| From the way New England manufacturer
/ are putting in machinery business must be good
/ One concern has just put in forty-three Enghsl
| cards and 400 new American looms for tho man
ufacture Of ladies' white fancy dress goods. Th'
/ Fall River, Taunton and other New Englant
| towns have formed q Manrfactnrers' Mutua
Protective Company to protect themselves from
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PATERSON NJ j., Jan 3l-The announcement
is made that 1, 700 silk-dyers and helpers en-
ployed in the great mills here will strike tomor-
row unless their demands for an increase of 81
a week, that fifty hours shall constitute weeks
work, and number of other concessions be
granted. The employers state that they will re-
sist all such demands. If the strike should be
prolonged it would leave thousands destitute
who would be compelled to stop work by reason
of the dyers being out
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HISTORY OF THE STRIKE.

Origin Of What Promises To BE One Of the
Great Movements of the Times.
New York Special to Louisville Courier ournal.
This coal strike has ceased to be merely local
or temporary quarrel between capitalists and .
few hundred laborers. At least fortnight ago
the effects OF the stoppage of the flow of coal
began to be seriously felt in the homes Of the
people, and 80 seriously in the work shops that
many of them have already shut down. Yet, up
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The Programme for To-Day.

New YORK Jan. 3l-The Star says that there
win he added to the list of strikers, tomorrow,
the brakemen trainmen, track-men, machinists,
carpenters. painters and other mechanics en-
ployed on the Pennsylvania railroad New York
division), and the New Jersey Central railroad,
belonging to District Assembly 49, K of L. On
the same divisions of these roads no men will be
at work except the conductors, engineers and
bremen.
II is stated that two newspapers in this city
will be visited tomorrow and requested not to
use steam furnished by non-union men. If the
request Is not granted, 1t is possible that the
union men employed on these papers will be
called out on strike.
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A Cashier short in His Accounts

CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-Benjamin j. Chamberlain.
cashier of the stockyords commission firm of
Combes, Hannah & Co., is short in his accounts,
the firm say, to the amount of So, 900, and it may
reach 81. 900 or So, 000 Cham berlain is of good
family. his father r. H. Chamberlain, being
superintendent of the Rock Island road. Cham
berlainwas arrested and held On bonds of So, 600.
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the United Labor Convention.

CINCINNATI. O., Jan. 3l-Charman Heath, of
the national committee of the United Labor
party has written to the committee on arrange
ments here to secure hotel accommodations for
1000 delegates to the labor convention. Feb. %,
and hall that will seat at least 500 delegates
John Swinton Henry George and Grand Master
Workman Powderly will be present. Music Hall
will be secured for the convention.
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Artesian Wells In Colorado.

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Joxrnal:
Some twelve or fifteen years 70 Congress
made appropriation for boring artesian wells
in the desert lands of Colorado and the slopes of
the Rocky mountains. for rrigating the same
Can any one tell the result Of this bene6cent at
Tempt 1t may have developed some facts of
value in these days Of boring for water or gas in
the Ohio valley. JBR
INDIANAPOLIS.